America an Idea or a Nation Being Transformed

Over the years my students wondered why there are so many different categories of people in our society and why are we not designated as Americans, why the hyphenated Americans? Why is it necessary to classify people into so many categories based on skin color, geographical location, ethnicity, and other subcategories that seem to be useful only to politicians, the census, academia, and to layers of government. They opined that bureaucrats with an agenda, using our own tax dollars, keep Americans divided and at intolerable odds with each other.  

But humans themselves have a desire to self-segregate into groups based on race, ethnicity, and other elements they perceive to have in common with the group or the tribe. Outwardly they declare that they want integration and will go to great lengths to achieve that goal only to reverse it when it is most convenient to them.

Wondering if such an America is worth saving, a conservative radio talk show host recently posed an interesting rhetorical question, “What is America?” His answer gave me serious pause and annoyed me.

He explained that America is an idea that only poets could create, and proceeded to explain the composition of America’s population (race, sex, ethnicity, religion) as part of this idea. He was reluctant to place Americans into distinct race categories, which were constructs invented by academia and politicians to differentiate people of varying skin colors and geographical origins. The host explained that the majority of the American population is still of European descent, but was uneasy about calling them white. Perhaps Caucasian might suffice?

Yes, we are of European descent, but we are not Irish-Americans, German-Americans, or Italian-Americans. The media may describe them as such but Irish, Spanish, German, etc. are nationalities, just like we are all Americans, no hyphenation. They exist because their nations exist.

Let me clarify for him that America is a nation with distinct borders until Democrats and globalists started to erase U.S. borders, reinterpreted immigration rules in the courts and laxed enforcement of borders, claiming that our immigration is broken.  Of course, nothing is broken, politicians are not enforcing existing immigration laws to the benefit of cheap labor and the expansion of Democrat voting rolls.

The citizens living within our borders are called Americans, that is our nationality. Nationality is not watered down just because people from other countries come here legally and become naturalized American citizens. It tends to become less valuable when illegals flood our borders, demand equal rights with American citizens, and have anchor babies who become immediate American citizens, while legal immigrants are patiently waiting far away the dispensation of their legal petitions to become Americans.

Those who come here illegally are not undocumented Americans as the lefties lovingly call them, they are the citizens of their home-countries from which they fled.

American citizens speak American English (although not the official language of the U.S.). We are ethnically diverse and most tolerant of other nationalities and races than any other nation on earth - until recently, that is, when Democrats decided to start a race war and bring back slavery to the 21^st century in order to claim financial reparations they are not entitled to. They claim that America is a racist country and capitalism has failed them miserably therefore they want it replaced with socialism/communism.

It is so easy for liberals to blame their woes on others instead of looking at their Marxist ideology, their lack of personal responsibility, and their disastrous choices in life as their own failings, not the shortcomings of the other side they so profoundly despise.

Humans have tried to segregate from other humans for centuries, using tribal affiliations, geographical location, bizarre concepts, cranium size, skin color, and many skeletal differentiations as revealed in this article. https://www.britannica.com/topic/race-human/Modern-scientific-explanations-of-human-biological-variation

Modern and current race and ethnicity standards were determined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and were published in 1997. The five contemporary race categories, seemingly arbitrary, and their definitions are:

·         American Indian or Alaska Native: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment.

(Where exactly does the Senator from Massachusetts fit in this definition?)

·         Asian: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

·         Black or African American: A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa.

(And if DNA proves that they do not have origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa, what are they?)

·         Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.

(What if persons are born and raised in those areas for generations, but are white? What are they?)

·         White: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.

 

The identified ethnicities by the OMB are:

·         Hispanic or Latino: A person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race. The term, "Spanish origin," can be used in addition to "Hispanic or Latino.”

(This definition is curious as Latium was the region of Ancient Rome, the heart of the Roman Empire. What the nationalities listed above have to do with Rome other than Latin language roots, is unclear.)

·         Not Hispanic or Latino

(So other groups of Americans who come from an equally strong ethnic background are just lumped in together for political expediency?)

 

According to a recent article by Daniel Greenfield,  

“Maintaining its proud commitment to printing all the news that will divide Americans by race, sex, and creed, the New York Times published a list of what it claimed were the “922 of the most powerful people in America” while claiming that only 20% of them are people of color.”

Greenfield wrote that “The New York Times’ message is that Muslims are “people of color” and Christians aren’t. It doesn’t matter if their families might have lived some 20 minutes away from each other. Arab Christians are white while Arab Muslims are a minority group.” https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/09/arab-muslims-are-people-color-arab-christians-are-daniel-greenfield/?fbclid=IwAR2IHSjMscUK-1xiLOQsUyevtN1XgBbh9exqdXzWvPJ1EtbWq1WKIBkWQkg#.X2rcvz990B4.facebook

Given that Americans are so naïve and utterly divided by their own corrupt government, the main stream media, academia, and billionaires with globalist Marxist causes and money to burn, is America likely to survive in its current form?

Will America as a nation morph into a globalist Marxist society in which all American citizens and illegals hiding in plain sight with voting rights and generous welfare become subjects to the whims of the billionaire technocrats who will control everything, including the three branches of the lawless centralized government?

Silence Is Not "Golden" When Defending Liberty

 “Silence is golden,” says the old proverb. The silence in defense of liberty is deafening. American voices are silent or drowned by the liberal agenda of the main stream media, the approved elite talking heads, and the progressive academia.

Stifling free speech and political debate by using political correctness and unfounded accusations of racism are the favorite tools of the progressive movement. Every facet of the American way of life is under attack by the fringe in power. Yet, it is so quiet on the right, you can hear crickets.

The anti-American political posturing of Democrats in this presidential campaign and the Republicans’ weak defense of what has made America a superpower is a reminder of how much is at stake and how much can be lost in November – the heart and soul of a nation, her very existence.

The American “arrogance” for which this administration is constantly apologizing to the world is found in cemeteries across Europe in which American heroes are interred, having died in the defense of liberty for ungrateful and cocky European socialists who have forgotten the ultimate sacrifice paid by ordinary Americans who preserved their way of life and freedom there and around the globe.

There is a strong disconnect between the interests of the political class and the interests of “we the people.” We want to save our nation and our Constitution. Politicians are only interested in gaining and retaining power and wealth during their “service.” Their ultimate goal is to remain in office for life by pleasing constituents who send in large donations and endorsements, and by pretending to care for the downtrodden. Throw supporters a bone in the form of welfare, amnesty, or union support, and they will vote Democrat forever. Build a bridge to nowhere or a short railroad to a swamp and you gain the citizens’ undying devotion.

Politicians prefer a dumbed down electorate, uninformed, with little education, no courage, easily duped and pliable so that representatives can retain their privileged status. Politicians lie, misrepresent, sell their conscience, betray the voters’ trust, betray their country, and sell it to the highest bidder in order to keep their power and office. Should they lose an election, civilian life can provide even more spoils in the form of lobbying, in exchange for knowledge and insider information gained while in office.

History is conveniently erased or re-written to favor the latest education mandate sent in by the mighty Department of Education who decides what facts are important and what perception of reality shaped by those in power is acceptable and politically correct in order to graduate more drones.

Students are socially promoted and encouraged to attend colleges where they are advised to pursue worthless degrees in social studies, women’s studies, ethnic studies, communication, and journalism with a communist bent and social justice activism, for which there is little demand and certainly little pay or employment opportunity unless Occupy Wall Streeter is considered a serious profession.

Who wants to study hard and struggle to pass math? Liberals say that “mathematics is man-made, arbitrary, and good solutions are arrived at by consensus among those who are considered experts.” By this logic, 2+2 may equal 5 if there is enough “consensus.”

Easy As in fluff courses are guaranteed in this progressive ideology that permeates humanities and social sciences. I never understood why they call them sciences – there is nothing scientific about a subject that derives its “wisdom” from opinion surveys.

Innovations, inventions, most favored status and strategic technology are sold or made available to rogue nations and enemies while allies are slighted or ignored.

If you happen to be “rich,” and the definition of “rich” keeps changing, you did not pay your fare share. You now work for your government, the government no longer works for you. Social justice demands as much confiscation of wealth as possible from you until redistribution of wealth and social engineering is satisfied. Only then will social justice/equity reign supreme.

If you have a small business for which you had worked very hard for many years or perhaps generations, you did not build that, someone else helped you because the government built roads for you to travel on and engage in commerce. Never mind that you were levied confiscatory taxes by the government, thus paying for the construction of roads and for the right to travel on them.

Government spending is out of control. Congressmen in both parties cannot help themselves in the drunken deficit spending frenzy. They are so irresponsible, they have not passed a budget in three years, one of  their primary missions.

Yet Congress and the government would like to tell you how irresponsible you are with your finances, how much more taxes you must pay, what to eat, what to drink, how much salt to consume, what drugs to take, what kind of insurance you must purchase, what vaccines you must receive, what engineered foods you must eat via Codex Alimentarius, what supplements to take, what cars to buy, where to live, what to do with your own property, where to work, how to raise your children, and what schools to attend.

Meanwhile, Congressmen exempted themselves from Obamacare, protected themselves against the very fraud they punished their constituents with, and were lawless and unaccountable for their misdeeds, protecting each other like thieves in the night.

We’ve lost our Space Shuttle program with the stroke of a presidential pen, but landed successfully the rover Curiosity on Mars. The fantastic journey took 8 months and millions of miles. It boggles my mind how precise and tedious the entire process was. Nobody paid much attention to this momentous occasion in the history of our nation or cared to rejoice in such an accomplishment, except for the jubilant and marvelous engineers at NASA. Everyone else was busy with mundane living or tired of hearing the MSM disingenuous non-stop praises of a failed administration. Why spend money on our stellar space exploration program when we can rent a chair on a Russian shuttle like a poor and distant relative who cannot afford a car.

Silence may be golden in some cases, but, in defense of liberty, we must hear more than a whimper from our pro-America politicians if we are to save our constitutional republic - it must be a roar in order to protect our country from extinction.